Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Georgia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ronan to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jacob Miller,
The Barracudas,
Danielle Patucci,
The Smiths,
The Busters,
Average White Band,
The Mojo Men,
Neil Young,
Gregory Isaacs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cal Tjader,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Deadbeat,
Flipper,
The Leaves,
Nas,
Robert Hood,
Slick Rick,
The Searchers,
Junior Murvin,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lyres,
Vladislav Delay,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Zeros,
David Bowie,
Black Flag,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lungfish,
Pussy Galore,
Main Source,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ituana,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Carl Craig,
Scion,
Kerri Chandler,
Hashim,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Man Parrish,
The Angels of Light,
Alison Limerick,
Flash Fearless,
The Star Department,
Roger Hodgson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pole,
Trumans Water,
The Invisible,
Fifty Foot Hose,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.